A multi-domain coupled numerical method for a flat tube bank fin heat exchanger with delta-winglet vortex generators

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1204-1229

  Lin, Zhi Min ^a   Wang, Liang Bi ^a  

^a LANZHOU JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER; COUPLED NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ORTHOGONAL GRID; OVERALL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; TUBE BANK FIN HEAT EXCHANGER; VORTEX GENERATORS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84898937414     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2013.857891     Document Type: Article

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